Bolton is a senior scientist in the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Years ago, I was the only physician serving a small country town and its ...

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In order to prevent future tragedies like the three mass shootings last week which killed at least 32 people, we need to understand the real cause(s) and lawmakers need to be informed. This morning, ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Mental health: Gist of mental illness. [iStockphoto] According to the Kenya Psychiatry ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms can overlap with those of other mental health conditions and physical illnesses, like ...

Traumatic events during early life can cast a long shadow, substantially raising the risk that people will develop a ...

It's not about the ways you're different, but rather how society perceives you. Research has long shown it's human nature to fear what we don’t understand. It appears any kind of uncertainty or ...

Who is more likely to develop a mental illness: men or women? For the Victorians there was no doubt. After a visit to London’s St Luke’s Hospital for the Insane in 1851, Charles Dickens wrote: But the ...